If a division has eight teams (plus a DRAID team), then that division will play seven four-game series (round-robin) plus two additional 4-game series for a total of 36 games.  After 7 series have been completed, rank the eight teams from top to bottom.  Ties are broken based upon head-to-head.  Break ties with the 20-sider if HTH records are the same.  The 8th series match-ups are 7-8  1-6  2-5  3-4.  After the 8th series, rank the 8 teams again as before.  Use the table below to determine match-ups and take the first set of match-ups where each team is matched up against someone that they didn’t just play.  For example, if the top team just played the team that is now ranked 6th, you would check match-up #2 and so on until you find one where everyone is playing someone that they didn’t just play.

 

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Match-ups

 

1

7-8  1-6  2-5  3-4

 

2

6-8  1-7  2-5  3-4

 

3

7-8  1-5  2-6  3-4

 

4

6-8  1-5  2-7  3-4

 

5

7-8  1-6  2-4  3-5

 

6

6-8  1-7  2-4  3-5

 

7

7-8  1-5  2-4  3-6

 

8

6-8  1-5  2-4  3-7